(CNN) — Demi Moore shared a touching message dedicated to Bruce Willis, her ex-husband, on the actor’s first birthday since he was diagnosed with dementia.
Moore and Willis were married from 1987 to 2000 and have three daughters together: Rumer, Scout and Tallulah.
On Sunday, the Hollywood actress gave her followers a glimpse of the Die Hard actor’s 68th birthday celebrations, posting an Instagram video showing Willis enjoying his day with Moore, his now-wife Emma Heming Willis, his daughters and other family members enjoys.
“Happy birthday, BW! Glad we got to celebrate you today,” Moore wrote in the message accompanying the video, in which Willis’ relatives sing “Happy Birthday” to the retired actor. “I love you and I love our family. Thank you all for the love and warm wishes, we all feel it.”
After joining in the singing, the “Die Hard” star is seen blowing out the candles on his birthday cake.
Hours earlier, Heming Willis posted a message about what it takes to care for someone with dementia and expressed that he felt pain and sadness. The couple married in 2009 and have two daughters, Mabel and Evelyn.
“Sometimes in our lives we have to put on our big girl pants and do it, and I do,” she said in the short video. “But I have moments of sadness every day, pain every day and I’m really feeling that today on his birthday.”
Last month, Willis’ family announced that his speech disorder, aphasia, had progressed to a form of dementia called frontotemporal dementia.
“Currently, there are no treatments for the disease, a reality that we hope will change in the coming years,” they said in a message shared online. “We hope media attention can focus on shedding light on this disease, which requires much more awareness and research as Bruce’s condition progresses.”
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, frontotemporal dementia refers to “a group of disorders caused by the progressive loss of nerve cells in the frontal lobes (the areas behind the forehead) or temporal lobes of the brain.” These areas of the brain are generally associated with personality, behavior, and language.